This has taken quite a bit of time and effort from a lot of people around the world, but we now have a solid collection of subtitles for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit! They are available in multiple languages too. So far we have English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Finnish, Swedish, Portuguese, and Hebrew. I have not been able to test them for accuracy, so I'll leave that up to you viewers. If you notice any major issues, please let me know and we'll try to get them fixed.

You'll notice that not every language is offered for the disc-based versions of the film. It's not a simple matter of just splitting the full subtitle file in half...the timestamps which determine when a line appears onscreen have to be completely re-timed for the second disc. So if you want to see accurate disc subs in your language, step up and volunteer!

Now I am not sure how you can add subtitles to a video file, or to an ISO file. I know it can be done, but I have never done it. If someone here would like to offer some advice or link to a tutorial somewhere, that would be awesome.

I'll sync Czech subtitles for complete and split versions in the future. But could You please find a way how to integrate them into DVD or better in BR version, please?

Do you have english subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery so I can sync a Czech version based on them?

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Sandro Algra

2/9/2016 03:24:55 pm

I've since found out how to split the subtitle file in two (pretty simple actually).

The Dutch subtitles can be found over here as two separate files: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5jrvi4a42t82g6h/AACkkwxWQGvmmlTYRt2oLDaTa?dl=0

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Lukas

2/16/2016 11:14:37 am

Could you tell me how you did it? :D (i would like to do the same for the german subtitles)

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Sandro Algra

2/16/2016 01:52:28 pm

First of all you need the software Subtitle Edit (that's what I used at least). Then follow these steps.

- Save two copies of the subtitle file and name them part 1 & part 2.
- In part 1: select all the dialogue of part 2 and delete it.
- In part 2: select all the dialogue of part 1 and delete it.
- In part 2: go to the menu Synchronization and select Adjust all times. You'll get a timer. Now it's just a matter of typing in the amount of hours, minutes, seconds and decimals you want to subtract (which is a little over 2 hours). Do it a few times until you get the result you want.

I also made Swedish subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery. Not sure why Dustin decided not to include them on the downloads page, but you'll find all the Swedish subtitle files here:

http://tinyurl.com/TheHobbitSweSub

And by the way - I had some syncing issues when using the subtitles for the DVD with the Bluray ISOs and vice versa. I don't know if that's just an issue on my end or if others will have the same issues, but that's why you'll find several different versions of the subtitles. If one doesn't sync up correctly for you then just use the other one! And if you find any errors or mistakes, just reply here and I'll fix them as soon as possible!

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Björn

2/10/2016 10:16:39 am

jattedank. Tack!

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Marek Tvrdy

2/12/2016 11:37:51 am

It seems that Dustin doesn't have english subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery. Do you have those?

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Eric Odmyr

2/16/2016 12:03:29 pm

No, I'm sorry, but I don't have English subtitles for it either. I had to make the Swedish subs from scratch.

Christoffer Hagelin

9/24/2019 10:47:09 am

Hello Eric!

I guess I am too late for this but if you ever see this can you update the link with the subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery? I Have googled for hours after it.

Hej Christoffer!
Oops, I must have accidentally deleted it from my Dropbox at some point. Good thing you told me! Here's a new link with all the Swedish subtitles:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jmyz1dv69reczhq/JRR%20Tolkien%27s%20The%20Hobbit%20-%20Swedish%20Subtitles.rar?dl=1

Hello!! congratulations for this great work!!
Other editions (spanish and english editions availables) of The Hobbit here: http://elhobbiteditado.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/comparacion-de-ediciones-de-el-hobbit.html

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Andrew H.

2/25/2016 02:38:16 am

Thank you so much for all the hard work! I was wondering if there were any subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery? Thanks. :)

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Dustin

2/25/2016 06:35:42 am

At the moment we do not have English subs for Durin's Folk. If someone would like to volunteer for the job, that would be awesome!

and finaly as a bonus heres a quick and bit rough transcipt for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery.It should help non native speakers if they have problems with some dialogue
or serve as a decent base to make subs.

https://1drv.ms/t/s!AlDKyYuAmgRsgp50aD8VXoWVEEDNlw

(i didnt write this-- its a fast copy paste from various sources)

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TiboriAndrei

1/30/2017 12:51:28 am

I will translate the Enligsh subtitle to Romanian. Will post them here.

I made an english rendition of subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery. It is based upon the timings of the Swedish translation, by Eric Odmyr before me, and also, things that are already in English on screen, (like subtitles for Black Speech and location names) are ignored. Anyway, you can find it on my website at this Url, right clicking and "Save As" will work, or you can just click it, ant it'll pull up a browser view of my work you can save onto your own subtitle formatter I guess. https://www.deckuzdomain.com/downloads/Durin%27s%20Folk%20and%20the%20Hill%20of%20Sorcery.srt

I've done some tweaks to the timings too for instances where English seemed a bit long to reuse the Swedish timings, or if something felt weird broken up a certain way.

Removed the "http(s)" from my link, as it causes google to look for a security certificate I forgot to update. My bad. It's a personal student website.

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Amdir

1/21/2020 10:17:58 am

Hey Deykuzor, I would like to thank you for your work, it is much appreciated!

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Levi Anderson

6/23/2018 02:02:43 pm

Sorry, I'm not understanding how exactly to download the English.srt file from the downloads page. Can someone help me with this?

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CHead2000

12/2/2019 07:34:06 am

Did anyone figure out how to incorporate subtitles so that they work with the subtitles option in the menu?

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Poly

3/13/2020 04:51:22 am

Try using a multiplexer like MKVtool to merge the new srt into the sub menu

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GL

5/25/2020 01:20:35 pm

Hi. I've been having trouble trying to find info on the site on how to integrate the subtitle files (txt or SRT) into the Maple Films edit of The Hobbit DVD/Blu-Ray ISO file. Can anyone point me to info where I can accomplish this without having to reconvert the video into lesser quality? This is on Mac Catalina OSX FYI.